Core D: Outreach Core

核心 D：外展核心

• 批准号: 8659398
• 负责人: James A Field
• 金额: $ 12.82万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至 2015-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8659398
• 关键词: Access to Information; Address; Advocacy; Advocate; Arizona; Communities; Community Outreach; Decision Making; Ecology; Education; Educational Materials; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Exposure to; Fellowship; Financial Support; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Government Agencies; Hazardous Waste; Health; Heavy Metals; High School Student; Human; Industry; Investigation; Mentors; Metals; Mexican; Mexican Americans; Mexico; Mining; Neighborhoods; Participant; Plague; Population; Process; Publications; Radio; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Assessment; Solutions; Students; Superfund; Training; Women' s Health; Work; community based participatory research; empowered; environmental toxicology; human capital; improved; interest; junior high school; meetings; member; novel strategies; outreach; professor; programs; remediation; teacher

The US-Mexico Border region is plagued by a growing environmental health crisis resulting from inadequate environmental infrastructure, uncontrolled disposal of hazardous waste and widespread exposures to heavy metals from mining and metal processing. The Outreach Core has a long tradition of working on environmental health issues impacting residents of the Border region. Past Outreach Core funding has been used to leverage $2.5 M in financial support to initiate and administer the US-Mexico Binational Center for Environmental Sciences and Toxicology (Binational Center). The overarching goal of the Outreach Core is to empower underrepresented community members of the Border region to become active participants in recognizing and resolving hazardous environmental contamination risks to human health. The objective is that they will become active partners in the implementation of solutions in their communities. The specific aims planned for the renewal will introduce new approaches of empowering community stakeholders as well as continue with the most successful approaches from the past outreach efforts. The new challenges for the competitive renewal are as follows: Aim 1) Training of Mexican women health advocates (promotoras) in environmental toxicology in order to multiply outreach efforts as they network in their local neighborhoods; Aim 2) Facilitate community-based-participatory-research opportunities between community stakeholders and superfund project researchers; Aim 3) Mentoring programs to cultivate future professional environmental health advocates The continuation of the most successful tasks from the previous program is as follows: Aim 4) Informing regional community stakeholders through bilingual workshops/meetings, community oriented publications and radio broadcasts; Aim 5) Increase human capital in the Border region by providing professional workshops, bilingual educational materials and leveraging funds for graduate fellowships; Aim 6) Administrative support and coordination of the Binational Center.

由于环境基础设施不足、危险废物处置不受控制以及采矿和金属加工中重金属的广泛暴露，美墨边境地区的环境健康危机日益严重。外联核心有着处理影响边境地区居民的环境卫生问题的悠久传统。过去的外联核心资金已被用于利用250万美元的财政支持，以启动和管理美国-墨西哥两国环境科学和毒理学中心（两国中心）。外联核心的首要目标是 使边境地区代表性不足的社区成员能够积极参与认识和解决对人类健康构成危险的环境污染风险。目标是使他们成为在其社区实施解决方案的积极伙伴。为更新计划的具体目标将采用增强社区利益攸关方权能的新方法，并继续采用过去外联工作中最成功的方法。竞争性续约的新挑战如下： 目标1）对墨西哥妇女健康倡导者进行环境毒理学方面的培训，以便在她们在当地社区建立网络时，扩大推广工作; 目标2）促进社区利益相关者和超级基金项目研究人员之间基于社区的参与性研究机会; 目标3）指导计划，培养未来的专业环境健康倡导者 上一个计划中最成功的任务的延续如下： 目标4）通过双语讲习班/会议、面向社区的出版物和电台广播，向区域社区利益攸关方通报情况; 目标5）通过提供专业讲习班、双语教材和为研究生奖学金筹集资金，增加边境地区的人力资本; 目标6）两国中心的行政支助和协调。